This is my second nomination for an award! Whole bunch of thanks to The Infinite Zenith for nominating me and for their kind words about this blog, much appreciated! Being rather new to the community I still have a long way to go but hopefully I'll be more active and creative next year, too. The award …
TAKEHIKO INOUE AND 16th WORLD KENDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
Kendo is a Japanese martial art and for every three year, the World Kendo Championship is held in a different city. Last May, however, was a special event because it was the second time it is being held in Japan; 1st and the 16th. The very famous Takehiko Inoue worked on the poster design (can be seen as …
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KOIMONOGATARI : A LOOK ON YAOI FANDOM
Writer's note : From this post, you can expect a criticism of yaoi fandom's reaction towards the non-yaoi related works and characters. This criticism is done through Tagura Tohru's manga Koimonogatari and later on it is expanded to general behaviour. All of the captions from Koimonogatari used in the article are taken by me from the original copy …
MONSTER WITHOUT A NAME
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Rewatching some of the episodes with my flatmate the other day, reminded me why I love anime and manga this much. Beyond …
“L” IS FOR THE WAY YOU LOOK AT ME
I wanted to write about this issue for a while, since it has been botholering me everytime I read a yaoi manga. Of course I got lazy (school being busy as ever, it was hard to sit in front of PC again) but there has been some incidents in Turkey made me and probably a …
WHAT THEY CALL YOUTH…??!
Hello again everyone. Today I am going to write about Seitokai Yakuindomo. Mangaka is Tozen Ujiie, manga is first published in Kodansha in 2007 as a 4-coma and genre is comedy/slice of life. Adapted to animation in 2010. The story takes place in Osai Academy. This school was previously an all-girls high school and in …
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE YOURSELF?
My next topic is Barakamon. Barakamon was really a big surprise for me actually and seeing the comments made on this anime it was a big surprise for everyone else also. Its manga started being published in 2009 by Satsuki Yoshino. Anime aired on television in October, 2013. Barakamon consists of 12 episodes in total …
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
It was obvious which anime I would choose to write on for my first review; actually I wanted to think about this particular anime by writing something about it. Nodame Cantabile. The term ‘cantabile’ means ‘song-like’ and it provides a flexible way of playing in terms of tempo and measure. No other term would describe Nodame better …
IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I'M NOT POPULAR! 